The random thoughts and musings caused by prolongued exposure to bus travel, mad family members and a steadily growing collection of singing potatoes. In short a load of nonsense as and when i get particularly bored

Monday, 22 November 2010

Painting In Need Of A Title

This painting was done on Sunday at a 1 day art course. It's an oil painting and the second time I've done the course - the last time was back in April when I was due to do landscapes but got my days wrong.

I did enjoy the day a lot - but although the above painting has turned out really well I don't feel as "good" about it as the painting I did last week from scratch by myself - I guess it's because the mountain painting is based on the Bob Ross method and thousands of students down the years will probably have produced something quite similar. Still - I had a good time and think I learnt a few things

Any suggestions for titles for the mountain painting, serious or otherwise, are much appreciated

PS: Bob Ross had a beard, Van Gough had a beard, Rolf Harris has a beard. Coincidence?

Lydia - interesting that you should comment about it being from a series - because my attempts at life drawing so far have been so laughably bad that i've designated them part of a series called "Demented Jelly Baby"

Peter - i can see you are a man after my own thought process. The painting that i did on the last course was of an iris, but i called it "Stag At Bay" because it was supposed to have been a landscape course only i got my days wrong

beardy people are cool! not that I'm biased or anything... I love the third phase of this painting, looks like an arctic dune. as for names... what about calling it Alan.. or George?... Very nice stuff, well done you!

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Too much latent creativity is bad for the soul. Too many people allow their ideas to slosh around their heads before evaporating into the ether. To combat this D.F.T.P. have set up this blog to allow vent to all those odd thoughts that keep you awake at 4am and would otherwise go unshared.